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The 24 pages that link to Plain language, each with the reason it gives.

• AccessibilityRelated: Clear wording reduces comprehension barriers for many people, including some with cognitive disabilities.

• Web accessibilityRelated: Direct wording reduces comprehension barriers, including for people with cognitive or language disabilities.

• Health literacyRelated: Plain language reduces avoidable barriers in health materials and instructions.

• Register (sociolinguistics)Compared with: Plain-language initiatives deliberately reshape institutional registers for accessibility.

• Health communicationRelated: Clear wording makes complex health information more accessible and actionable.

• Inclusive designRelated: Clear language reduces a common barrier for people with varied literacy, language, and cognitive needs.

• EuphemismCompared with: Plain-language principles often favor familiar, explicit wording over euphemistic phrasing.

• Technical writingRelated: It reduces the effort needed to understand technical explanations without sacrificing accuracy.

• Copy editingRelated: It gives copy editors a clarity goal that can require simplifying specialized prose.

• Forensic linguisticsRelated: Plain-language analysis exposes legal wording that may be difficult for the public to understand.

• Information designRelated: Sentence-level clarity complements visual structure and reduces interpretation effort.

• Style guideRelated: Plain-language principles can shape sentence, vocabulary, and organization rules.

• Inclusive languageRelated: Clarity can include people excluded by jargon, complex syntax, or unexplained terms.

• PeriphrasisCompared with: Plain-language practice often favors direct expressions over unnecessary periphrasis.

• AbbreviationCompared with: Plain-language writing often replaces unfamiliar abbreviations with full terms.

• Bai JuyiRelated: Bai’s reputation for accessible verse rests on making literary arguments legible and direct.

• GlossaryRelated: Plain-language definitions make glossary entries understandable without sacrificing accuracy.

• E. B. WhiteRelated: White’s style manual helped make economy and clarity central ideals of American prose.

• Legal writingRelated: It addresses the challenge of making legal documents clear without distorting their effect.

• Technical communicationRelated: It makes complex material more accessible without requiring readers to become specialists.

• Writing styleRelated: It offers a practical standard for choosing clarity over unnecessary complexity.

• NominalizationCompared with: Overusing abstract nouns can obscure who acts and what happens, a concern plain-language guidance addresses.

• Curse of knowledgeRelated: Writers can counter the bias by testing whether explanations make sense without assumed background knowledge.

• User guideRelated: Direct wording reduces the effort needed to follow instructions.